St. Maurice Beach Inn

St. Maurice Beach Inn occupies a courtyard-style building on Michigan Street in Hollywood Beach, close enough to the sand and the Broadwalk that walking is the easiest way to get around once you check in. Unlike a standard motel row of doors facing a parking lot, this property is built around an interior courtyard, and most of the units are efficiencies or small apartments rather than plain hotel rooms, each with its own kitchenette or full kitchen depending on the room type booked. That layout gives the inn a residential feel that is different from the tower hotels a few blocks away.

The inn offers five room configurations, from a Courtyard Studio Queen with a microwave and mini fridge up to a Deluxe King One Bedroom Apartment with a full kitchen and a sleeper sofa that can sleep up to five guests. That range makes the property workable for a solo traveler on a beach weekend as easily as for a family trying to avoid eating every meal out. Every room includes wifi and satellite TV, and the inn provides complimentary beach chairs and towels along with bicycle rentals, a nice touch for guests who left their own gear at home and do not want to rent equipment separately.

Because it operates independently rather than through a franchise reservation system, the inn runs its own booking platform and keeps its rates off the published website, directing guests to a check availability tool instead. That is common for small operators who want flexibility on pricing during snowbird season versus the summer off season. The property also offers discounted city parking permits, worth knowing if you are driving down and do not want to pay Hollywood Beach’s metered rates for the length of your stay.

St. Maurice Beach Inn is a real, independently run business, not a listing that has quietly gone dark. Its website is active, its booking system is current, and it maintains both a Facebook page and an Instagram account that gets used regularly. As with many long-running budget-friendly beach properties in Florida, guest experiences vary more than they would at a big chain hotel, since a small independent inn does not have a corporate maintenance department resetting every room to the same standard on the same schedule. That is the trade-off with a property like this: a genuinely local, non-chain option steps from the beach, in exchange for a more basic, no-frills version of a hotel stay than you would get at the newer boutique properties nearby.

For travelers who care more about location and price than about matching bedspreads, St. Maurice Beach Inn is worth a look, particularly for stays long enough to make a kitchenette useful. It sits within easy walking distance of the Broadwalk’s restaurants and shops, and its courtyard layout gives it a different feel than the high-rise hotels that dominate this stretch of Hollywood Beach, making it a fair representative of the independent lodging still holding on in this part of town.